Facebook Adds Trending Videos To News Feed, Redesigns Trending Articles

Facebook’s flurry of tweaks and new features since its initial public offering May 18 shows no signs of slowing, with the addition of a trending videos component to users’ news feeds and a modification to the design of its trending articles component.

Facebook’s flurry of tweaks and new features since its initial public offering May 18 shows no signs of slowing, with the addition of a trending videos component to users’ news feeds and a modification to the design of its trending articles component.

The Next Web was the first to report on the trending videos section in the news feed, pointing out that while the potential new feature could be good for video applications — sister blog Inside Facebook highlighted a few that are using open graph integration, including Socialcam, Viddy, and Chill — users may not agree, as reaction to the introduction of trending articles was lukewarm, at best.

As for trending articles, Inside Facebook pointed out that the gray bar atop the older version was replaced by a header, which includes Facebook’s news icon, and the thumbnail is more centered, as opposed to flush left.

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